gvNix: Showing entities based on user roles

Question

I'm using gvNix to create my web application and I used typicalsecurity addon to enable email verification and sign up...etc. But now I want only the admin to see all the entities on the menu, the normal user can only access some entities. I have more than one role.

I tried to google typicalsecurity addon but I was only able to find the first step, which is installing the addon and integrate it with the app.

Answer 1

To limit the menu visibility based on roles you have to use the menu utility offered by gvNIX. In gvNIX run help menu for more info, or read the spanish guide at http://www.gvnix.org/assets/doc/gvnix-2.0.0.M1-reference-docs/#comandos-del-add-on-web-menu

For a complete security you should use Spring Security to limit which actions (controller methods or service methods) can be invoked by each role.